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Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence [electronic resource] : conundrums in modern American medicine

By: Contributor(s): Series: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 253 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780813548128 (electronic bk.)
  • 0813548128 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • 2010 A-390
  • WB 100
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Contents:
Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine -- Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer -- How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy -- How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer -- Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety -- Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals? -- Where do we go from here?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine -- Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer -- How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy -- How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer -- Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety -- Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals? -- Where do we go from here?

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